xi, 303 p. : 25 cm

A professor of medicine reveals how technology like wireless internet, individual data, and personal genomics can be used to save lives

Includes bibliographical references and index

Part I. Setting the foundation. 1. The digital landscape : cultivating a data-driven, participatory culture -- 2. The orientation of medicine today : population versus individual -- 3. To what extent are consumers empowered? : clicks and tricks -- Part II. Capturing the data. 4. Physiology : wireless sensors -- 5. Biology : sequencing the genome -- 6. Anatomy : from imaging to printing organs -- 7. Electronic health records and health information technology -- 8. The convergence of human data capture -- Part III. The impact of homo digitus. 9. Doctors with plasticity? -- 10. Rebooting the life science industry -- 11. Homo digitus and the individual

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